hello Patrik
our mine is in Venezuela and temps here is our main concern because of our warm climate...we run industrial grade ventilation on our warehouse....our miners usually run in the high 60's in the daytime and sometimes peak on the low 70s for a couple of hours on hot days at noon. we would like the protection to trigger in the rare case of a ventilation failure on our warehouse to protect the miners...since we don't have a dedicated staff there all the time.
do you have any more info on the overheat protection rule.....I see it defaults at 96 degrees, it seems quite high for Antminers, antminers are supposed to stop hashing at 80 deg, but i've seen them reach 80 deg and stay at 80 in the past , look like they don't really to stop working when they reach 80 deg with their built in overheat protection in the firmware ....any recommendations?
thanks in advance
Hi,
The "Device Temperature" trigger should be possible to use in this case. The default value is 96 degrees because a device can also be a GPU when doing GPU mining, and they can run over 90 degree in some cases. For an Antminer, you are fully correct that the device temperature should trigger much earlier, and around 80 is probably a good idea.
Please note that you can also change "Temperature source" to "Antminer chip", if you want the trigger to look at the temperatures of the Antminer chips (instead of the PCB temperature). The chip temperatures are typically much higher, about 90 - 100 degrees. In the Summary tab in Awesome Miner, you can also see the current chip temperature.